Anticreeper for railroad rails



.' June 30, 1931. w RUSSELL ANTICREEPER FOR RAILROAD RAILS Filed April 30, 1930 umumnl llllllllllll INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented June 30, 1931 UNITED STATES WILLIAM I. RUSSELL, 01? EDINBURG, TEXAS ANTICREEPER FOR RAILROAD RAILS Application filed April 30,

I railway rails in which the construction shall be extremely simple and held in place by spring means which have a tendency to tighten or exert a more determined pressure when a train passes over the rail engaged by the anti-creeping device.

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in the improvement here- A inafter described and definitely claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement in applied position, the rail being in section. 1

Figure 2 is a plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a sectional view approximately on the line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a view looking toward the end of the improvement.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the saddle member of the improvement.

My improved anti-creeping device for rails essentially includes a cross sectionally U- shaped saddle or U-shaped member 1. The parallel sides of the member 1 are cut away from one of their corners and are notched, as at2, to provide upper flanged walls which contact with the base flanges of a rail 3 and the lower straight walls which underlie the base of the rail. The distance between the notches and the cutaway ends of the saddle members is substantially equal or slightly less than the cross sectional width of the base flange of therail 3. I insert in the saddle member the arms of a flat spring. The arms 4 and 5 of the spring are connected by a loop 6 and the arms 4 and 5 have their ends bent at opposite directions to provide hooks 7 and 8, respectively. The hook 7 of the arm 4 engages with the outer edge of the base flange of the rail 3, while the hook 8 of the arm 5 engages with the outer edge or end of the base of the member 1.

The member 1 is arranged on the rail between ties 9, as disclosed by the drawings, and is in the path of contact with such ties. The arms 4 and 5 are compressed when the device is inserted between the base of the member 1 and the base flange of the rail.

1930. Serial No. 448,684.

The arms 4 and 5 naturally spring away from each other so that the hooks 7 and 8 will engage respectively with the edge of the base flange of the rail 3 .and the end of the base of the member 1. The arm 5 is of a length approximately equaling that of the base of the member 1 and by reference to the drawings it will be seen that the loop 6 extends downwardly or outwardly from the inner end of the said arm 5, so that the loop, at its juncture with the arm 5, is in contacting engagement with the inner or second end of the base of the member 1 when the device is in applied position. The spring may be easily applied and readily detached without liability of injury to the track hand.

Having described the invention, I claim:

An anti-creeping device for railway rails comprising a metal member which is substantially U-shaped in cross section and which has its parallel sides from one of its ends cut away and notched, the upper walls of the notches being arranged angularly to contact with the upper sides of the base flange of a rail when such base flange is received in the notches and the distance between the notches and the cut away end of the member being substantially equal to the cross sectional width of the base flange of the rail, a two-arm spring designed to be inserted through the member, both arms of the spring having their ends bent in opposite directions to provide hooks which frictionally contact respectively with the edge of the base flange of the rail and the end of the U-shaped member and the arms of the spring being connected by an outwardly rounded inwardly directed loop which provides the lower arm of a less length than the upper arm and which loop, at its juncture with the lower arm, contacts with and exerts a pressure against the inner edge of the base portion of the U- shaped member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM I. RUSSELL. 

